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"And now you are Master of the Order," Master Fay said with a faint twitch of her lips. "How time does fly."
Something about those words caused Master Mace to twitch a little, as Yoda and Yaddle both chuckled in the manner of their species. "Yes well, can we ask what vagaries of the Force brought you to Sorenno?"
"A desire to help young the young Knight Komari Vosa. I am after all uniquely suited to help in that area." Fay replied.
"So it is nothing to do with your eat mysterious padawan?" Master Windu asked archly regaining his equilibrium quickly.
"Perhaps, perhaps not," Master Fay said serenely, letting the man's judging glare wash over her like so much mist.
"Question Master Fay we will not," Master Yoda said complacently, but with steel in his voice, as Master Giiett nodded just as firmly. Years had gone by, but he well remembered Harry Potter and his mother and knew what their powers had done for the Order, oh yes. "Her padawan's training, her own responsibility it is. Good it is to see you again, several years it has been Master Fay."
Yoda stared through the hologram at Master Fay who fell silent, the two of them communing somehow, which the other Masters, even Dooku and Windu, could not quite follow or feel. At last Yoda smiled widely, as did Master Fay. "Speak more we will if meet in person we can, many of the techniques, received well they have been."
"I know Yoda, and I have a few others that might be received just as well now," Master Fay said smiling lightly.
A few of the Masters on the other end of the Hypercom shifted uncomfortably. Only a few of them had been able to re-create the techniques Master Micah and Yoda had been able to, though far more knights and padawans could use them, and a few of them had even begun to branch out, creating their own variations of the known techniques. The Council of First Knowledge was having fits, Jedi style of course, because of that.
Windu too had issues with the new techniques, though mostly he had issues with the youngling who had been taught them, they were all far too emotional in his opinion. But this was not a time for that discussion or the discussion of where the new techniques had come from. "Perhaps we could get back to the original topic?" he asked, and Yoda nodded.
That discussion continued for a time. The High Council had not been happy for the solution Dooku and Windu had pushed for. Nor that Dooku, who had a personal connection to Sorenno, had been assigned to the debate. It smacked far too much of collusion to them, and of going around the Senate and its prerogatives. But Dooku had long wanted to see the Order distance itself from the Senate, and Windu was worried about the uptick in violent missions, pirate activity and, though no one outside the Order knew it, the rising power of the Dark Side. With the two of them, backed by Yoda, Yaddle and a few others, Master Pouf and the Pro-Senate faction could gain no headway.
A moment later the call ended, and Fay left quietly, having no wish to speak or be seen by any Senator. She had long disliked the Senate and its long-distance rule, which attempted to centralize control of the Republic in such a way that was at best unfeeling, at worse hopelessly corrupt.
Dooku felt much the same, thought he actually had a few friends among the Senators, and had more concentrated on how stagnant the Order had become, something that had changed with Yoda's return to Coruscant. Indeed, though no one knew it, before the new techniques had been introduced Dooku had been searching for knowledge of the Sith, believing that conflict with the Sith would force the Order to start growing again. But since the new techniques had started to spread, the impetus behind that idea had faded swiftly, though he still had issues with how the Order was more an extension of the Senate than a separate entity.
After Fay left the room Dookuhe called his friends one after another, ending with the Senator of Naboo, Sheev Palpatine. The two of them were not close, but they had similar thoughts on the Senate's immense and cumbersome bureaucracy, and Sheev was well thought of in the halls of the Senate.
They talked for a while, with Dooku commiserating with the man over the recent Eriadu debacle, which he had tried to push forward, and the death of his king recently. "But you didn't call just to hear me up moan about my fellow Senators inability to act like intelligent moral individuals, nor even my own personal loss, thankful though I am for your sympathy" the man said after about fifteen minutes. "What is going on my friend?"
"You are unfortunately correct. The Issues with piracy that were one of the reasons the Eriadu Trade Conference had been called in the first place has also begun to be a problem here in the D'astan sector. And The Council of Counts has decided how to respond." Dooku replied.
The man winced shaking his head. "Sorenno has also decided to militarize then?"
"In a way yes. No capital ships will be built, but a starfighter corps will be raised trained and armed to go after the Pirates."
"I see," the man said with a sigh.
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On the other end of the Hypercom Darth Sidious, or Sheev Palpatine as his public persona was called, had to hide a frown. Sorenno had been supposed to build a large fleet, with at least a few capital ships. Yes, they didn't really need that many of them, but such a fleet would have fed a sense of superiority and make their Counts start to act aggressively in patrolling their own sector, as well as its neighbors. This would have given rise to further tension, not least of which because those sectors would have been shown to not be able to look after themselves.
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